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Just what use would an iris scanner be on a smartphone? When will 2K displays take over the smartphone world (and why should we care)? How exactly does one spell "Magotes," anyway? If these questions have ever crossed your worried minds -and even if they haven't- the second-to-last episode of the Pocketnow Weekly's 2013 season is right up your twisted alley, friend. But even if you're not interested in such tomfoolery, there's still plenty here to ping your pong. In this episode we talk headline-grabbing rumors like the Galaxy S 5 and wooden Moto X, yes - but we also spend a lot of time ...

Click this link to join the hangout! . Topic We've been supporters of new platforms and startups for quite some time, and it is also the case of our friends at Jolla. We've seen them and their new little platform several times throughout 2013, and now we have our own Jolla phone in our review labs so we can dissect it. Would you grab one? The world's first 2K smartphone has been announced by Vivo with the Xplay 3S. 2560 x 1440 resolution is what some of you rock on your 27-inch iMacs or PC monitors, but the Vivo-phone brings that to a six-inch display. Evolution? Gimmick? Useful feature? ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Vivo's new Xplay 3S, and its 2K-resolution display. Meizu follows as the company has just announced that its officially going to launch products in the US. Then we talk about Microsoft and the fact that Xbox Video as finally arrived to Windows Phone 8. Then the news about Microsoft continues as we cover the company's plan for a new CEO. We end today's show talking about the Pebble App Store, and what this could mean to the platform. All this and more after the break. Stories: - This is what a 2K smartphone looks like: Vivo launches Xplay 3S - ...

You've known they've been coming; for the past several weeks now a couple OEMs have been teasing their work on smartphones featuring 2K resolution displays. Yesterday we saw Oppo get very official with confirmation of the Find 7's 2K display, and today we take the next step with Vivo, as we see the company launch its own 2K handset, the six-inch Xplay 3S. It's not just the display that's high-end. Beyond that 2560 x 1440 panel, the phone packs a Snapdragon 800, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, some premium audio DAC and amplifier chips, and a 3200mAh battery. Around back, there's not ...

You can spend all day talking about how 2K displays won't really make any positive impact on smartphones: how no one's going to be able to notice any quality difference compared to 1080p, how performance and battery life will be inevitable causalities, or how manufacturers are only introducing such components for the sake of saying “look what I have that you don't.” But make no mistake; they're coming. We've heard about a few early contenders for phones that might arrive with displays in the 2560 x 1440 range, and today we start getting launch details on one of them, the Vivo Xplay 3S. ...